Portugal scenic viewpoint
Miradouro da Vigia das Baleias
You can see 62 km from here, looking north.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 62 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 62 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 48%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 4Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 260 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 4 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are in August.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Febwest10 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Maynorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augwest2 min before the sea-level sunset43%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Octwest6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Novsouth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Decsouth-west20 min before the sea-level sunset16%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Miradouro da Vigia das Baleias.
Scenic overlook in Algarvia
Miradouro da Vigia das Baleias is a scenic viewpoint in Portugal, 260 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 62 km away, looking north.
The sea fills 48% of the horizon.
4 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Pico da Vara (1,103 m), 5 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in August.
Get there and stay
- Parque de Campismo da Feiracampsite · 7.0 km · 3 within 10 km
- Basaltic House (AL)place to stay · 0.6 km · 99 within 10 km
- Nordestenearest town · 7.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in NordesteBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- João Paulo II Airport (PDL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 km in a straight lineCar hire at PDL airport (Ponta Delgada)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 11other viewpoints within 5 kmMiradouro da Borda da Ladeira, Miradouro do Pesqueiro - Santana, Miradouro do Pico da Vara and 8 more
- 2named peaks within 5 kmPico da Vara, Assomada
- 2marked trails within 3 kmPRC07SMI Pico da Vara, Caminho Florestal de Santo António
- 3shelters and huts within 5 km
- 16car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmPosto de Turismo do Parque da Ribeira dos Caldeirões
- 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 3campsites within 10 kmParque de Campismo da Feira, Parque de Campismo das Furnas
- 99places to stay within 10 kmBasaltic House (AL), SHR Houses - Algarvia (AL), Tradicampo - Casa da Fonte (TER/CC) and 96 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Miradouro da Vigia das Baleias, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Miradouro da Vigia das Baleias
Portugal
- 62Viewyas Score
- 62 kmFarthest ridge
- 4Peaks in view
- 260 mAltitude
Miradouro do Salto do Cavalo
Portugal · 8 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 107 kmFarthest ridge
- 6Peaks in view
- 767 mAltitude
Miradouro do Pico do Paul
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- 83Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 8Peaks in view
- 811 mAltitude
Boca do Inferno Viewpoint
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- 80Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 5Peaks in view
- 799 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q10330536) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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